procutil: make mercurial.utils.procutil.stderr unbuffered For most Mercurial code, it doesn’t make a difference, as the ui object flushes stderr explicitly (after the change, we could get rid of the explicit flush). One example where it makes a observable difference is mercurial.util.timed(). Without the patch, the time is not immediately shown on Python 3. With the patch, it’s shown immediately on all Python versions and platforms.

tests: generalize common test case code in test-stdio.py

procutil: make stdout line-buffered on Windows if connected to TTY Windows doesn’t support line buffering. Previously, we worked around that by setting the stream unbuffered. Instead, we can use our own line buffering we already use on Python 3.

procutil: split import and reassignment Besides making the code clearer, it will reduce the diff in the next patch.

procutil: move assignments closer to reassignments Doing reassignments is an anti-pattern IMHO, but I see how it makes sense here. When first looking at this code after jumping here with ctags, I missed the fact that stdout was reassigned. To make the code clearer, the assignments should be as close as possible to the reassignments.

procutil: factor out conditional creation of LineBufferedWrapper At the same time, document the logic and generalize it to work on all Python versions.